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Wed 27 April 7pm,  Goethe-Institut London

Part of the John Berger Season
A Little Bit of Freedom - a film by Yüksel Yavuz
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In association with the exhibition, My Father and I, at the Austrian
Cultural Forum and the panel discussion, The Seventh Man - Then and Now,
at the Institute of International Visual Arts, the Goethe-Institut
London will screen A Little Bit of Freedom by Hamburg based director
Yüksel Yavuz. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated
by the film critic Sukhdev Sandhu.

John Berger's book The Seventh Man, first published in 1975, was a
collaboration between the author and the photographer Jean Mohr,
documenting the experiences of so-called guestworkers in Europe. Little
Freedom offers the possibility to reflect on this same agenda thirty
years later, this time with respect to the issue of asylum seekers in
Europe.


A Little Bit of Freedom (Kleine Freiheit)
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Germany 2002, 35mm, colour, 98mins, in Turkish and German with English
subtitles. Written and directed by Yüksel Yavuz. With Cagdas Bozkurt,
Leroy Delmar, Nazmi Kirik, Necmettin Cobanoglu, Susanna Rozkosny, Sunay
Girisken.

Set in Hamburg's immigrant district of Altona, home to the world-famous
red light district, the Reeperbahn, A Little Bit of Freedom tells the
unusual story of the friendship between two young men. Baran is a Kurd
whose relatives have helped him to come to Germany after the death of
his parents. His asylum application was rejected just shy of his
sixteenth birthday. No stranger to hard work, he survives by running
errands for a Turkish fast-food restaurant, which take him from the
finest apartments to the lowest clip joints - confronting him with the
district's many realities. Not until Baran encounters the seventeen-year
old Chernor - also an illegal and stateless immigrant - does his life
gain impetus. The two are drawn together. But while Chernor tries to
finance his future by dealing drugs, Baran's past catches up with him.


Yüksel Yavuz was born in Karakocan/Turkey in 1964 and moved to Germany
in 1980 where he studied Economics and Sociology in Hamburg from
1986-1989. He has been involved in the film industry since 1990 and
studied Visual Communication at Hamburg's Academy of Fine Arts from
1992-1996. His films
include: Die Hoch-Zeit (video short, 1992), Coromandel (video short,
1993), Freedom Pension (video short, 1993), 100 und eine Mark (short,
1994), Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter (documentary, 1995), his first
feature film The April Children (Aprilkinder, 1998) and A Little Bit of
Freedom (Kleine Freiheit, 2002).

Sukhdev Sandhu is chief film critic at the Daily Telegraph. He is the
author of London Calling: How Black and Writers Imagined A City (Harper
Perennial, 2004). He also writes for Vertigo, Modern Painters and the
London Review of Books.

VENUE
50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH, Tel 020 7596 4000, Fax
020 7594 0240 www.goethe.de/london

BOOKING INFORMATION
Tickets are £ 3. For further information and booking call  020 7596
4000.

NOTE FOR EDITORS
For more information and print quality pictures please contact Silke
Pillinger on 020 7596 4045 or at [log in to unmask]


RELATED EVENTS

Exhibition: My Father and I
Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London, SW7, T. 020 7584 8653
12 April-12 May, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. www.austria.org.uk/culture

Photographs documenting the experiences of a (Turkish) Kurdish
guestworker in Vienna, and the relationship between a father and son. By
Mehmet Emir.

Panel: A Seventh Man: Migration and Photography
12 April 6.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum, www.austria.org.uk/culture

With photographers Jean Mohr and Mehmet Emir and writer Timothy O'Grady.
Moderated by Asu Aksoy. Free.

Exhibition: John Berger: Portraits by Jean Mohr
14 April-18 May, Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm.
City University, School of Social Sciences, St John St., near Angel. For
info: 020 8510 9786. Photographs drawn from over four decades of
friendship

Discussion: The Seventh Man: Then and Now
17 May 6.00, Institute of
International Visual Arts
6-8 Standard Place, Rivington St, Shoreditch, London EC2
T 020 7729 9616
www.iniva.org. Free.
A discussion with writers Gary Younge, Latife Tekin, Moris Farhi, and
Emine Sevgi Özdamar (tbc).  Chaired by Maureen Freely.

For all events in the John Berger season see
www.johnberger.org


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